Penguins/NHL category, Page 82

The comparisons between Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon are always going to be present. After all, there are only so many dynamic All-Star franchise centers who can label the small Canadian maritime town of Cole Harbor, Nova Scotia, as their home. And on the scant occasions their respective teams, the...

The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled goaltender Magnus Hellberg from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on Wednesday after placing incumbent backup goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic on injured reserve. Nedeljkovic suffered an undisclosed injury during a 4-1 home loss to the Dallas Stars on Tuesday. Hellberg, 32, was signed as an unrestricted free...

Going into the season, there were a few things that could possibly go wrong for the Penguins. Right now, lots of them are: • They’re defensively vulnerable in every way possible. That’s because the Penguins play loose, and not necessarily to be blamed on their defensemen. • Their physicality is...

Just about everyone on the Pittsburgh Penguins seemed to feel that the team’s 4-1 loss Tuesday to the Dallas Stars was a better effort than their 4-2 defeat in St. Louis on Saturday. But it still wasn’t good enough. And frankly, it still wasn’t all that good. Parsing different degrees...

The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 4-1 defeat at the hands of the Dallas Stars at PPG Paints Arena on Tuesday was unsightly for a variety of reasons. • It was their third consecutive loss. • They yielded a lead they earned after a strong first period. • Their power play once again...

For those who watched it, there was little to like about the Pittsburgh Penguins’ malodorous 4-2 road loss to the St. Louis Blues on Saturday. At least the first 56 minutes, 27 seconds of it. But late in the third period, one cause for optimism emerged. The Penguins got a...

The Pittsburgh Penguins are slated to start goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic for Tuesday’s game against the Dallas Stars at PPG Paints Arena. Nedeljkovic has played in only one game this season. During a 5-2 home win against the Calgary Flames on Oct. 14, Nedeljkovic made 34 saves on 36 shots. Throughout...

After his Pittsburgh Penguins lost 4-2 versus St. Louis on Saturday night, head coach Mike Sullivan said he needed some time “to digest” what had happened. On Monday, presumably after knocking back a few bottles of Pepto-Bismol, this is what he came up with. “I don’t think it’s a game...

Bryan Rust was in a familiar realm Monday. The Pittsburgh Penguins’ first power-play unit. During a practice session in Cranberry, Rust replaced fellow forward Rickard Rakell on the top unit, joining forwards Sidney Crosby, Jake Guentzel and Evgeni Malkin and defenseman Erik Karlsson. Rakell skated on the second unit, along...

Former Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Adam Clendening has signed with Ilves of the top league in Finland, the Liiga. That team announced the transaction via a release Sunday. The Penguins acquired Clendening as well as forward Nick Bonino and a second-round pick in the 2016 NHL Draft (which was eventually used...

Jake Guentzel was almost insulted by the query. When the Pittsburgh Penguins All-Star forward netted his first goal of the season — one that proved to be the winning score — at 5 minutes, 50 seconds of the third period in a 5-2 win against the Calgary Flames on Oct....

Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan did not have much to say after his team’s latest loss, a 4-2 defeat to the St. Louis Blues at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. “We didn’t play hard enough and we didn’t play smart enough,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said to media in...

Since the year 2000, Hockey Fights has documented the pugilistic side of the NHL and the sport as a whole. Founded when dial-up modems and gif-infested GeoCities pages were still prevalent, Hockey Fights has maintained detailed logs of seemingly every bout in league history. And not surprisingly, there are leaderboards...

The Pittsburgh Penguins added a new face Friday afternoon in the hopes of revitalizing a group of bottom-six forwards that has lacked offensive production so far, as winger Radim Zohorna was recalled from Wilkes-Barre Scranton of the American Hockey League. Zohorna, 27, played in four preseason games for the Penguins,...

The Pittsburgh Penguins seem to have avoided the early-season scare of losing one of their top players to injury. Defenseman Kris Letang missed practice Thursday and after the Penguins wrapped up their drills for the day, coach Mike Sullivan told reporters Letang was being evaluated for an unspecified injury. Thankfully...

The compilation of rankings (lists, Top 10s, Mount Rushmores, etc.) is both a staple and the bane of the modern sports “journalism” existence. Such endeavors are well-read but lazy. You jot names/teams/events down until you’ve reached your prescribed number. It’s easy to generate debate, especially with yourself to start. You...

After playing four games with the Pittsburgh Penguins to begin the 2023-24 season, forward Jansen Harkins was placed on waivers Thursday, per Cap Friendly. If no team claims him by 2 p.m. Friday, Harkins, who carries a cap hit of $850,000, can be assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey...

In August, new Pittsburgh Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas indicated he would not be timid when it came to utilizing waivers to craft his roster. And throughout the preseason, he did just that by claiming castoffs such as forward Jansen Harkins and defenseman John Ludvig. It looks like...

Having missed the playoffs last season by a single point, the Pittsburgh Penguins learned a hard lesson. Points and wins carry the same value no matter when they are accrued. “Our team knows what we have to do in order to be successful here,” forward Bryan Rust said in Cranberry...